Posted on 07/19/2021 6:59:15 AM PDT by conservative98
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump accused Sen. Ted Cruz of election fraud, described him as “very unstable,” accused his father of aiding in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and his insulted his wife. For all his embarrassment, Cruz (and the rest of the GOP field) got crushed by Trump in the primary, and then he shamelessly groveled and worked to get the man who called his wife ugly elected to the presidency.
That, apparently, is Ted Cruz’s idea of “fun.”
Cruz was asked in a Thursday interview whether he was thinking about another run for president and laughed. “Well, sure. I’m certainly looking at it,” Cruz told Newsmax.
“I’ll tell you, 2016 was the most fun I’ve ever had in my life,” Cruz added. “We came incredibly close, we had an incredible grassroots army.”
Cruz did not, in fact, come “incredibly close.” Trump won nearly twice as many votes as Cruz did, and effectively wrapped up the race by mid-March, though Cruz continued to drag it into May and even, albeit briefly, into the convention. Ultimately, Cruz won fewer than a dozen Republican primaries; Trump won 41.
After Trump became president, Cruz went on a charm offensive to win back the support of his biggest presidential rival, and it worked: during one rally for Cruz’s re-election to Senate in 2018, Trump gave the senator formerly known as “Lyin’ Ted” a new moniker: “Beautiful Ted.” Cruz, in turn, was a main booster of the evidence-free effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election outcome, and he ultimately voted to reject certification of the results in Arizona and Pennsylvania after a pro-Trump mob stormed the halls of Congress.
If Cruz wants to take another shot at becoming president, he may once again have to go up against Trump
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Just no! 😣
Cubanadians are not natural born citizens.
Ted undermines his Senate career and credibility every time he undermines the Constitution.
Have any of Trump’s wives been a CFR member?
As much as I love Ted, I will vote for Trump this time without reservation.
If Trump runs they need to just get out of the way and support him.
In 2016 at the RNC convention, Ted Cruz said to “vote your conscience”, meaning do not vote for Trump and vote for Hillary instead.
Ted is Dead to me.
Sorry, Ted. If not Trump then DeSantis.
Cruz is going to loose his Senate seat if he doesn’t pull his head out of his backside really soon.
November 8, 2022 is the next Senatorial election for Cruz.
So he has got some time to make his decision.
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https://www.texastribune.org/2016/09/23/cruz-endorse-trump/
“After many months of careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I will vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump,” Cruz said in a statement released to The Texas Tribune.
Yep.
He screwed Dr. Carson in Iowa and I’m still convinced he was doing the same to Mandy Carpenter of his campaign staff and CNN.
Your memory of events is neither complete nor correct.
**Even more nonsensical anti conservative, anti Republican propaganda posted by “conservative98” as usual? Yup.**
Ditto. Sound and fury signifying nothing.
Cruz is not a leader, he has no business thinking he is capable of being president. I do like him in the Senate, but the son of a Cuban born in Canada is not a NBC of the USA. In fact, sans a valid consular report birth abroad, Ted Cruz is not even a US Citizen.
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